Word: northwest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FRIDAY NIGHT MOVIES (CBS, 9-11:45 p.m.). Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest (1959), with Gary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason...
...designed to intercept, at ranges of up to 25 miles, any ICBMs that escape the clouds of X rays and neutrons laid down by the Spartans. In addition, five or six independent Sprint batteries will be deployed to protect the long-range radar sites and Minutemen in the U.S. Northwest. Though the number has not yet been determined, each Spartan site may have as many as 50 missiles...
Telling, Not Asking. Peggy impresses her teachers and fellow students as eminently levelheaded, fazed neither by her father's rank nor by the social hazards of having had a steady Negro beau. At Woodrow Wilson High School in Northwest Washington, she edited the yearbook and made the honors category every year. By last fall, when she was ready to enter Stanford, she and Guy were informally engaged. She wore no engagement ring, but brought Guy around the State Department's seventh floor so that her father's secretaries could meet the fellow she had talked about...
Flaring through parched timberland in the drought-stricken Pacific Northwest last week, the worst forest fires in more than half a century defied efforts to contain them. So far this year, some 1,800 fires have destroyed more than 105,000 acres of timber in Montana, Idaho, Oregon and Washington. Fire-fighting costs have climbed to $17 million; damage to the economy of Oregon alone is estimated at $5,000,000 a day. Because of the menace, most of the national forests in Montana, Or egon and Washington were closed to tourists and logging. President Johnson has declared Idaho...
Ironically, there has been summer rainfall high over the Northwest. But the air temperature has been raised so much by an abnormally warm summer that the rain has evaporated before hitting earth. Lightning generated by these abortive rainstorms has continued to strike, setting fire to dried underbrush and causing an estimated 80% of the Northwest's fires...